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Edit: I take back the insults and lemme explain in detail
Its not the graphics don't look like zelda but are exactly the same zelda sprites except with a small recolor and how buffed the sprites are... and cloning a game is definitely illegal if you intend to make cash out of it without the permission of the original owner of the license... If it were entirely free (Instead of smacking all over the place to buy the + version), then it wouldn't be copyright..
Graal Classic copyrighted Zelda's gameplay in every perspective. After they created Zelda online (originally now known as Graal), Unixmad wanted to make cash out of it and tried to make the game look different from Zelda just to avoid copyright issues... Sadly, this failed...
Lemme explain...
Copyrighting is allowed if the clone doesn't make a fortune out of it... Linken in World of Warcraft happens to be an NPC in-game (Not purchasing content) so thats allowed... Because they're not making money out of Linken... If you go sell a pikachu hat in graal, thats copyright because you don't have permission of the original owner of the license... You can't steal licensed games/properties and intend to make a huge fortune out of it...
Thats what Graal Classic is dealing with... You can pretty much see how Graal Era changed a whole lot... It doesn't look like as its a zelda clone anymore... Graal Classic hasn't been given the full paintjob just yet... As if half of the world still looks like Zelda Online... UnixMad just wants to make it look different so he can continue to cash in while having to avoid complains of how its copyright..
Take a look at the video i posted earlier... You'll see what i mean
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It's not the gameplay that decides if it it's copyright. Graal is a lot like Zelda, BUT it isn't Zelda. As long as it doesn't steal the name or characters it's not copyright.